News - Ofcom says broadband speeds falling short

[nightkhaos]

TBH, 2MBit download is not the end of the world. Sure, faster is always better, but it's higher upload speed that I'd like.

To you, who understand the technological limitations, 2Mbit seems very reasonable for day to day usage.

To the general public, who doesn't, geting a quater of the bandwidth they think they are paying for is unacceptable.

This comes under the banner of "misleading advertising".

So enough of the "but it's supposed to be that way". Does anyone have any suggestions that will make it less confusing for consumers?

And while we're at it, can anyone think of a way to get concusmers of the following benchmarks, as they are becoming more and more irrelevent:

• Gigahertz (Processor)
• Megabytes of graphics memory (GPU)
• Megapixels (Camera)
• HD-ready (Televisions, general consumers seem unaware of the difference between HD-ready and Full-HD)
• Megabits (Bandwidth, as discussed)

Any others you guys can think of?

[Steve]

I have the solution.

Basic rate monthly broadband fee, which provides a minimum sync speed as the SLA. If your line can't do it you either have to waive that minimum rate, or cancel.

Then, you pay £n extra per month for each extra megabit you're able to sync at, to a maximum specified by you.

So let's say SteveNet provides ADSLMax. We start at £10/mo for 2Mbps as the assured service level. We'll go up to 8Mbps at £2 per month per extra megabit.

If I wanted the full 8Mbit and could get it, then I'd pay £22/mo. However, if I could only sync at 6Mbps I'd only pay for what I got - £18/mo.

I could rip people off by having a massively contentious network seeing as my pricing is based on sync, not throughput. I could promote it by saying people only pay for what they get, which giving the publicity Ofcom has done for me already, would probably work quite well.

[nightkhaos]

I have the solution.

Basic rate monthly broadband fee, which provides a minimum sync speed as the SLA. If your line can't do it you either have to waive that minimum rate, or cancel.

Then, you pay £n extra per month for each extra megabit you're able to sync at, to a maximum specified by you.

So let's say SteveNet provides ADSLMax. We start at £10/mo for 2Mbps as the assured service level. We'll go up to 8Mbps at £2 per month per extra megabit.

If I wanted the full 8Mbit and could get it, then I'd pay £22/mo. However, if I could only sync at 6Mbps I'd only pay for what I got - £18/mo.

I could rip people off by having a massively contentious network seeing as my pricing is based on sync, not throughput. I could promote it by saying people only pay for what they get, which giving the publicity Ofcom has done for me already, would probably work quite well.

Well that would work quite well, but I was thinking of changing the advertising model, not the selling model, but hey, you go make millions why the rest of us argue over the details. Oh and if you no longer want to maintain HEXUS from your solid gold throne I'll happily take it off your hands.

[Steve]

Any VCs happen be reading this thread?

[nightkhaos]

Any VCs happen be reading this thread?

VCs?

[Steve]

Venture Capitalists.

[nightkhaos]

Venture Capitalists.

I will give you one postage stamp worth of capital for 20% of the company, minus postage.